And that is the answer to Mark Ant's question. I see no functional difference between the fighting abilities of a rugby player and an American football player unless the rugby player gets to bring Deep Heat into the ring and smear it into the eyes of the MMA fighter in the clinches
Hey if a big rugby player got in the octagon against a small enough MMA fighter he`d win, my question is how small etc.
Bantamweight/featherweight mma our boxer would most likely batter most men no matter size or occupation. Didn’t Jeff fenech batter a rugby player ?